Years ago KFI, KNX, and KNBR used to be regularly doable in the winter, Not anymore.
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Congratulations. Nicely done indeed!
From south Overland Park, Kansas:
During late critical hours this morning after sunrise between 6:30-7:00am CDT, I logged the following stations:
1070 kHz: WTSO, Madison, Wisconsin, 10 kW, 2-tower directional day pattern. This is a "new" log.
1290 kHz: WIRL, Peoria, Illinois, 5 kW, 2-tower directional day pattern. They were "booming" in at 7:00am CDT. Previous log.
1310 kHz: WIBA, Madison, Wisconsin, 5 kW, non-directional daytime. Previous log.
1470 kHz: WMBD, Peoria, Illinois, 5 kW, 2-tower directional day pattern. Rare, previous log as I have a local station on 1480 kHz.
It is purely coincidental that I logged stations in cities where I have previously lived.
Bob
During late critical hours this morning after sunrise between 6:30-7:00am CDT, I logged the following stations:
1070 kHz: WTSO, Madison, Wisconsin, 10 kW, 2-tower directional day pattern. This is a "new" log.
1290 kHz: WIRL, Peoria, Illinois, 5 kW, 2-tower directional day pattern. They were "booming" in at 7:00am CDT. Previous log.
1310 kHz: WIBA, Madison, Wisconsin, 5 kW, non-directional daytime. Previous log.
1470 kHz: WMBD, Peoria, Illinois, 5 kW, 2-tower directional day pattern. Rare, previous log as I have a local station on 1480 kHz.
It is purely coincidental that I logged stations in cities where I have previously lived.
Bob
Looks like you had a pipeline right into those areas. Nice.
Everyone needs an "old home week". Nicely done, Bob. Congratulations! Both WTSO and WIBA are audible at my home location daytime, and usually also at night. They're also sister stations, but from different sites (as you probably also know.)
John Colbert, longtime WIBA News Director, was the first PD I ever worked for (in a previous life for both of us). Good Guy and fun to hang out with.
Back in the day, WIBA was owned by Madison Newspapers and both the AM and FM were great stations. Office and studios were located in Fitchburg. WTSO and FM WZEE were housed in the same building off Tokay Boulevard on the west side of the city.
John Colbert was a great news man and he was well respected in the city.
Bob
As well he should be. He took his woek very seiously. Unlike when he and I were both in our early twenties and working together...and before he got into news. I once stayed overnight at John's house a few years after we worked together, and both had real jobs.
The other night walking to Walmart in Carmicheal I got 997 now between 7 or 8 pm
I never really got that Station in Carmicheal or even in Citrus Heights
It was on my HanRongDa HRD-103
I never really got that Station in Carmicheal or even in Citrus Heights
It was on my HanRongDa HRD-103
Nice Catch
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I tried for KSL (SLC) from Macon, Georgia a few years ago. 1160 just sounded like a huge machine, eating it's gears.
Wasn't that bad in the early 80's.
WE'll only be issuing one QSL per person in the future for tests we do
1160 at one time only had two stations on it in North America, KSL and WJJD which was limited time. Now in many places in the east 1160 sounds like a graveyard channel.
WBQN in Puerto Rico goes back to a CP in 1973, so it's been a long time that the channel only had two stations in the US. Mexico had an 1160 in Uruapan dating to before 1970.
You're right, but I go back to the 50s and early 60s when WJJD could be heard great distances for the hour or two they were on after Chicago sunset. Even during the 1970s 1160 wasn't crowded....yet.
WJJD boomed in to the Eastern and Southern parts of the US like a de facto Class I station with a protected skywave service area in that post sunset period, because there was little skywave from KSL in that period. When WJJD ran 50 watts presunrise during the extended EDT time part of one year back in 1974, it was about the same strength as KSL. So 50 kW would have given it about a 31.6 D/U ratio in Southeast Michigan for that time period after sunset.
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WJJD also boomed into northern Wisconsin during the '60s during those hours of midwest darkness prior to SLC sunset. Now with fulltime status, and a 50kw signal beamed north, as WYLL, they still do. The only differenc is that now, the 1160 Chicago signal is a monster in the Wisconsin northwoods (and beyond) all night long.
They sure are. When WYLL built that night facility, I want to say around 2008-09, they boomed into Northern Wisconsin at night.
Previously from the Ballard Rd facility they couldn't be heard up there. Now during the winter WYLL can be heard on the Arctic receiver.
That's interesting. Where I am on the Chicago lakeshore, WYLL is actually not all that strong at night... there are several stations in the background, though I've not been able to ID any of them.